Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Dallas Theatre Fan
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#1Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 12:21pm
Last night I was thinking about lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs. I know most of the main actors in Wicked are in the ensemble in No One Mourns the Wicked and in Matilda Ms. Honey plays a parent in Miracle. So my question is do any of you know any other examples?
#2Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 12:27pm
If you consider them leads, Marius, Cosette, Enjolras, Eponine, and the Thénardiers are all in the ensemble before their respective characters' first scenes.
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#3Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 12:29pm
I didn't know that about miss. Honey.
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#4Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 12:29pm
Patti LuPone (if I am remembering correctly), stated that she was on the barricade after she died as Fantine. I don't know if that "tradition" has continued.
#5Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 12:32pm
It has.
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#6Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 12:43pm
Call_me_jorge said: "I didn't know that about miss. Honey.
She is in the last set of parents that comes out underneath the table.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/08
#7Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 12:49pm
For Gentleman's Guide, the actresses who play Phoebe and Sibella are in the ensemble in the songs at the top of both acts.
For American Idiot, the actresses who play Whatsername and Extraordinary Girl are in the ensemble numbers leading up to their characters' arcs begin.
During the Paper Mill run of Newsies, the actor who played Crutchie became an ensemble Brooklyn newsie during "Brooklyn's Here" as the character of Crutchie was left in the Refuge for a majority of Act 2.
For the current Les Miserable Bway production, I don't think Fantine is at the barricades, but she's certainly one of the women for "Turning".
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#8Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 12:51pm
I don't know if Fruma Sarah is considered a lead, but she's in the ensemble in many scenes.
Also the track of Marian from Bridges of Madison County is featured as an ensemble in "State Road 21"
Eliza2
Broadway Star Joined: 1/7/16
#9Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 12:56pm
For the current Les Miserable Bway production, I don't think Fantine is at the barricades, but she's certainly one of the women for "Turning"."
She is. She wears a white hat and a purpl-ish top
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#10Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 2:05pm
It's very common, many supporting roles are often in the ensemble when possible.
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#11Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 2:14pm
For a show that's happening now, Steve Pasquale is, for all intents and purposes, considered the lead in Robber Bridegroom. However, he appears onstage or sings in the ensemble for nearly all other songs except for maybe two of them.
#12Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 3:25pm
The actor playing Michael Wormwood in Matilda is also one of the older schoolchildren in the ensemble numbers.
#13Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 6:28pm
I know this is probably different than the scope of the intent of the original question, but Sally and Phyllis are kinda ensemble members backing up Stella in "Who's That Woman" in "Follies".
In the two regional productions that I've seen, Migaldi and the Mistress usually is part of the ensemble and Peron ends up in the ensemble a few times in "Evita".
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#14Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 6:59pm
LizzieCurry said: "If you consider them leads, Marius, Cosette, Enjolras, Eponine, and the Thénardiers are all in the ensemble before their respective characters' first scenes."
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#15Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 7:12pm
You just have to check the actors' twitters and you'll find pictures of the actors playing Marius or Enjolras with their faces covered with dust and ready for the opening scene.I don't know much about the Broadway production, but in London Cosette and Eponine are two of the "lovely ladies", Enjolras and Marius are two of the judges in "Who Am I?", Enjolras is the butler in the wedding scene and so on.
#16Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 7:18pm
^ you don't need a link. You have to watch the show and look at the faces.
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Eliza2
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#17Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 7:27pm
The actors playing Valjean and Javert are the only actors in Les Miserables that don't play any additional roles in the show.
I always chuckled at Kyle Scatliffe (Enjolras) because when he came out as a beggar in "At the End of the Day" they tried to hide him by having him cover most of his face with a blanket/shawl type thing, but he was so tall and it was so obviously him that it was almost comical.
Just taking Marius as an example - he's a prisoner in the opening, then also in the farm scene, then a beggar in, then one of the factory workers, then during Lovely Ladies / Fantine's Arrest he's one of the townspeople. Cosette and Eponine are also beggars, then factory workers, then whores during Lovely Ladies.
StephieElise
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#18Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 9:06pm
I don't know if it's the case for all productions, but in the current Australian production of Cats the actress playing Grizabella plays another nondescript cat in the opening number.
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#19Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 10:03pm
Penny Pingleton was in part of Good Morning Baltimore in Hairspray.
#20Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 10:14pm
StephieElise said: "I don't know if it's the case for all productions, but in the current Australian production of Cats the actress playing Grizabella plays another nondescript cat in the opening number. "
"When you're walking alone..."
#21Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 10:15pm
Call_me_jorge said: "^ you don't need a link. You have to watch the show and look at the faces."
Don't worry, I know that what LizzieCurry says is true, I was just joking.
#22Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 10:20pm
Many of lead characters in spamalot, excluding King Arthur and lady of the lake, played multiple roles in the ensemble.
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My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
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#23Lead actors who are in the ensemble for certain songs
Posted: 3/24/16 at 10:34pm
LizzieCurry said: "If you consider them leads, Marius, Cosette, Enjolras, Eponine, and the Thénardiers are all in the ensemble before their respective characters' first scenes."
Link?
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